RAILDATE 2023.08.25

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• International Rail News
• Other Transport Modes
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UK Rail News

East

• Newark: Warning of train delays during viaduct refurbishment work

London

• Protesters who dug tunnels near Euston station are sentenced
• London Euston to Watford Junction rail works in pictures
• Vintage tube train trips return to London in September
• Back to Hogwarts day
• London Overground lines to be named

North East

• Unexpected stop gives boost to rail campaign for more trains at Chathill

North West

• New hope in campaign to reopen Penrith to Keswick railway line
• Milestone reached in overhaul of Blue Peter steam locomotive
• North Staffordshire Railway 1950s or 60s

Scotland

• Glasgow Subway closed for testing new trains
• Our bus service was cancelled so we started our own
• Cairngorm Mountain Railway
• New Ayr railway station plans could see part of Station Hotel bulldozed
• Agency Secures £11m Settlement Over Cairngorm Funicular
• Full steam ahead for the Alford Valley Railway
• Low-cost London to Edinburgh rail service Lumo launches flexible ticket offer
• £12.6m bridge replacement at Shields Road due to start next week
• Historic test train gets new lease of life in Fife
• ECTS test train donated to Fife Heritage Railway
• Date set for prosecution over Carmont derailment
• Closure dates announced for Levenmouth railway crossings

South East

• Bluebell Times August 2023
• Fire at Hove station
• Railway upgrade halves delays on Southern and Gatwick Express services at Victoria station
• Aylesbury culvert renewal
• Flying Scotsman visit to Bluebell Railway

Wales

• New coaches for Talyllyn railway built at Boston Lodge

West

• Study to reopen Chard Junction/Parkway

Yorkshire

• Northern provides West Yorkshire railway staff with more body cameras
• NYMR 50th gala

National

• ‘Politically charged’ option of closing rail network sections suggested in 2000
• Network Rail puts modernised class 73's up for sale
• ORR open letter to Network Rail over structure inspections

International Rail News

Australia

• The XPT soldiers on
• Reliability boost for interstate rail line

Austria

• Austrian Railways order battery / electric trains from Siemens

Canada

• Testing of Mark V Vancouver skytrain vehicles

Estonia

• Estonian freight traffic collapses due to sanctions against Russia

Hong Kong

• Extra safety for horse-racing punters

Hungary

• MÁV-Start suspends passenger services on 10 lines

India

• Fatal collapse of new railway bridge in India

Ireland

• Alstom win contract to onstall ECTS on routes from Cork

Isael

• Tel Aviv Red Line opens

Macau

• Construction Of North Of Light Rail Transit East Line Commences

Switzerland

• Gotthard rail tunnel, world’s longest, closes for months after Swiss derailment

USA

• BNSF Donates Hydrogen Test Locomotive To Oklahoma Museum
• The Rocket Takes Off

Other Transport Modes

Air

• Stanstead Airport terminal and station evacuated

Bus

• Bus driver quits in mid journey
• Harrogate - Our new electric buses

Marine

• Delayed CalMac ferries facing further setbacks over safety concerns
• Stranded MSC container ship leaves Odessa after 18 months
• Pioneering wind-assisted cargo ship sets sail
• P & O to withdraw Belfast - Liverpool service
• Isle of Man's new ferry Manxman makes maiden passenger voyage -
• Over-budget ferry hit by more delays after safety alterations

Road

• Wooden bodied car for sale

Credits

Thank you to this week's contributors.

• John Grimley
• Ken Holway
• Mike Price
• Neil Kearns
• Nick Wheat
• Richard Buckby
• Richard Maund

The Weekly Poser: Where is this?

This railway layout of this town was transformed as a post-1923 Grouping rationalisation. The main station was relocated to the centre of the triangle and is no longer a terminus. Where is it? (It had trams too)

Last week's Where is this?

We see a Peak (Class 44, 45 or 46) departing from - where? And heading in which direction?

Answer: Skipton. Congratulations are due to the following for their correct answers: Dave Goodyear, Paul Hopper, Ken Holway, Bryn Pitcher, Simon Wass, John Czyrko, Jenny Sutton, Peter Tisdale.

The Peak is a Class 45/0 No. 45 030 on 1S68 St Pancras-Glasgow leaving Skipton 1976.02.14. So, it's heading north. Sorry, I have no information about the Class 25 on the left. Photo by Kevin Hughes [RCTS Collection]. The station has been slimmed down on the left and right, with land taken over by car parking for a Morrison's superstore.

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